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  • Post-Qualifying Child Care Social Work

    Developing Reflective Practice

    Edited by Gillian Ruch ...
    `The first text to systematically address the learning needs of post-qualifying child care social workers. Soundly organized and engagingly written with useful summaries and reflective exercises for students, it is a very fine text that will be widely used′ - Nick Pike, Principal Lecturer in Social Work, University of GloucestershireThis textbook provides an overview of the Post Qualifying Child ... Read more

    $78.29 USD

  • The Child's World, Third Edition

    The Essential Guide to Assessing Vulnerable Children, Young People and their Families

    by Danielle Turney, Julie Taylor, David Shemmings, Yvonne Shemmings, Arnon Bentovim, Emilie Smeaton, Audrey Tait, Helen Wosu, Gillian Ruch, Beth Tarleton, Nadine Tilbury, Claudia Bernard, Jane Barlow, Emily Munro, Katherine Bishop, Ruth Marchant, Simon Hackett, Emma Palmer, Stephen Pizzey, Jenny Gray, Dave Backwith, Michael Murphy, Michaela Rogers, Christine Gould, Barbara Lawrie, Jane Appleton, Karen Whittaker, Stan Houston, Aideen Naughton, David Jones, Liz Hadcroft, Dawn Hodson, Patrick Neil ...
    This definitive textbook provides accessible information on best practice for assessing the needs and strengths of vulnerable children and their families. It explores the challenges that practitioners face routinely - with suggestions as to how to address them - as well as the established areas for assessment, of children's developmental needs, parenting ability and motivation, and socio-economic ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • Social Work Education and Training

    by Gillian Ruch, Fritz-Reudiger Volz, Joan Orme, Andrew Hill, David Ward, Kate Skinner, Charlotte Knight, Hugh Barr, Ian Shaw, Steven Shardlow, Pedro Morago, Chris Clark, Pamela Trevithick, Nathalie Huegler, Karen Lyons ...
    Series series Research Highlights in Social Work
    Excellent social work education and training is vital for ensuring best practice, and it is important to understand the key approaches and methods in order to provide the best teaching and ensure effective learning.This volume provides an overview of social work education, including the background and current context. It covers the key debates surrounding social work education, such as the ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • Relationship-Based Social Work, Second Edition

    Getting to the Heart of Practice

    by Ravi Kohli, Martin Smith, Clare Parkinson, Linnet McMahon, Robin Solomon, John Simmonds, Andrew Cooper, Jane Dutton, Anna Fairtlough, Jeremy Walsh ...
    This comprehensive guide to relationship-based practice in social work communicates the theory using illustrative case studies and offers a model for practice. Updated and expanded, it now includes increased coverage of anti-oppressive and diversity issues, service user perspectives and systemic approaches in social work.The book explores the ranges of emotions that practitioners may encounter ... Read more

    $32.79 USD

  • Relationship-Based Research in Social Work

    Understanding Practice Research

    by Kathleen Russell, Gavin Swann, Helen Hingley-Jones, Harry Lunabba, Elina Virokannas, Katarina Fagerström, Laura Yliruka, Jonna Vanhanen, Outi Jaakkola, Erja Saurama ...
    Relationship-based research is founded on the idea that human relationships are of paramount importance and should be central to social work research and practice.Drawing on psychodynamic and systemic understandings of research and practice, this book offers practitioners and academics an insight into what constitutes relationship-based approaches to research. These ideas are brought to life by ... Read more

    $53.29 USD

  • Observation in Health and Social Care

    Applications for Learning, Research and Practice with Children and Adults

    by Stephen Briggs, Andrew Cooper, Minna Daum, Claire Kent, Graham Music, Pat Cartney, Duncan McLean ...
    Examining and exploring new approaches to therapeutic observation in health and social care, this multidisciplinary guide discusses and analyses its uses in a range of practical contexts with children, families and adults.Developing good observation skills is paramount to sustaining relationships in the challenging settings that health and social care professionals find themselves in. This guide ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • Researching Critical Reflection

    Multidisciplinary Perspectives

    Edited by Jan Fook, Val Collington, Fiona Ross, Gillian Ruch, Linden West ...
    Critical reflection helps professionals to learn directly from their practice experience, so that they can improve their own work in an ongoing and flexible way – something essential in today’s complex and changing organisations. It allows change to be managed in a way which enables individuals to preserve a sense of what is fundamentally important to them as professionals. It is particularly ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Supporting Young Children’s Participation in Child Welfare

    European Perspectives

    by Wendy Eerdekens, Eva Heirbaut, Inger Sofie Dahlø Husby, Randi Juul, Esther Mercado Garcia, Carmen Roncal, Alicia Toal, Geraldine McGuigan, Pål Børmark, Solvår Hernes ...
    How do we better involve young children in the decision-making of their own social care? This book, developed from the Erasmus+ funded PANDA project, explores the development of knowledge and resources to educate and support social workers in their collaboration with children aged 12 and under.Featuring real-life practice vignettes, reflective questions and evidence-informed implications for ... Read more

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  • Innovation in Social Care

    New Approaches for Young People Affected by Extra-Familial Risks and Harms

    by Michelle Lefevre, Nathalie Huegler, Jenny Lloyd, Rachael Owens, Jeri Damman, Gillian Ruch, Carlene Firmin ...
    Available open access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.Based on the findings of the Innovate Project, a four year pan-UK study to identify the processes of innovation in care, this book asks: how can services be re-envisioned and transformed through innovation? The authors provide an overview of the project findings and offer insights into the core conditions necessary for socially just and practice ... Read more

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  • Essential Theory for Social Work Practice

    by Chris Beckett, Nigel Horner ...
    Focusing on what students really need to know, this book breaks down all of the key social work theory covered across a students′ training, demystifying complex concepts by demonstrating their application to real-life practice. Multiple case studies highlight applied theory in different practice settings and across issues and challenges that students might face, while self-assessment exercises, ... Read more

    $67.49 USD

  • Social Work Theory: A Straightforward Guide for Practice Educators and Placement Supervisors

    by Siobhan Maclean ...
    Social work students need to be able to link theory to their practice on placement. The need to support students in this area often causes anxiety for practice educators and placement supervisors. The first edition of this book was used widely by practice educators in supporting student learning in relation to theory and practice. It was so popular that many students started to use the book ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Professional Values and Practice

    Achieving the Standards for QTS

    by James Arthur, Jon Davison, Malcolm Lewis ...
    The professional code of the General Teaching Council lists eight new standards, each of them analysed here in detail using questions and activities to describe what trainee teachers need to know, understand and demonstrate as they work towards Qualified Teacher Status. Each of the eight standards cover the following issues:expectations, diversity and achievementpersonal and professional ... Read more

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